The front yard of Dame Betsy's cottage was like a little grove with lemon-color and pink hollyhocks; one had to look directly up the path to see the eldest daughter sitting on the bench eating honey-cakes.

It was five o'clock in the afternoon: the horizon beyond the harbor was turning lemon-color; -- and a thin warm wind began to come in weak puffs from the south-west, -- the first breaths to break the immobility of the tropical air.

All the familiar objects of sea and shore had disappeared; this was a new world -- a world of fantastic shapes, all moving and unknown -- a world of vague masses of gray, though here and there a gleam of lemon-color shining through the fog showed that the dawn was reflected on a glassy sea.

In the west a band of lemon-color lingered, and above the stars began to prick through, great scintillant sparks, that looked, for all their size, much farther away than the stars of the peopled places.

Of some gymnobranchiata the writer observes: "I never saw any living animals with such gorgeous colors -- the most vivid carmine and pure white, mixed with golden yellow in the bodies and mantles, and the gills of pale lemon-color and lilac.